I've got this bug fixed, but can't post the instructions until I can get home and compare my online.php with the stock one. It's an easy fix to make and I will post the directions ASAP.

Amy

Installed and works well on my 3.0.6 :)

Thanks for the great hack .. clicked install

Mmm .. worked for 1 day and now all have all guests and no spiders ..?

What version of vb are you using and did you check online.php to confirm that spiders are actually on your board? There are plenty of times when spiders aren't around.

This isn't a high priority fix, but how do you move the comma over one space to the left? It looks wierd when there is a space between user name's like it currently is.

If I weren't so PHP stupid I may be able to do it myself.

Great hack btw.

Found the problem and this may help other folks having problems in showing spiders in the stats. :banana:

Update Spider Identification Strings & Spider Identification Description in your admincp .. you can always find an up to date list of both here

I installed the hack and when I view who is online I see this

Currently Active Users: 4 (1 members and 3 guests and [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders)

Why is it saying undefined spiders? Did I do something wrong?

i can't remember which it is but either it is you didn't do the template change or you didn't change the phrase

Figured it out...Thanks for the response

Just to be clear, your problem wasn't a problem with the hack. It was a problem with the default, out of the box, behavior of vbulletin.

Correct .. amykhar .. no problems with the hack

hmmm i am having a prob with this hack. Have done exactly as given in text file.
Right now am getting

Currently Active Users: 7 (6 members, 1 guests and 0 spiders)
(on the main forum page in the whats going on field at bottom)

while if i click on who's online and see there, i see
6 members, 1 guests and 2 spiders

where the 2 spiders are the google spiders.

Hows that?
And i am dead sure i have done file edits properly.

(BTW i have removed the and in the phrase with comma,But that can hardly be the reason :P lol

I can't verify the problem because your online.php is not available for guests to view.

I am posting a fix for this problem here so that some more advanced coders can test the instructions before I replace the original text file. Please only do this fix right now if you are a coder and willing to test this code. (The code on my forums works. I just need to ensure I captured all the changes in the instructions.)

This fix requires undoing all changes you made in online.php and using the instructions in this file instead.

Amy

The install appears not to have an adverse effect on any other part of my forum but I do have a minor problem and that is the last step regarding (vb 3.07):



In the template WHOSONLINE find:

2=?$numberguest?



Add after:

3=?$numberspiders?



Doesn?t exist in my WHOSONLINE Template and the closest things I can find is



<strong><phrase 1="$numbervisible" 2="$numberguests">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase></strong><br /><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase>

</div></td>



Or this:



<select name="who">

<option value="all" $whoselected[0]>$vbphrase[all]</option>

<option value="members" $whoselected[1]>$vbphrase[members]</option>

<option value="guests" $whoselected[2]>$vbphrase[guests]</option>

<if condition="$vboptions['enablespiders']">

<option value="spiders" $whoselected[3]>$vbphrase[search_bots]</option>

</if>

</select>



Assistance please?

It's this one:

Put it in right after the 2="numberguests"

Installed
I have 12 msn.bots on there right now and it says no spiders on the WOL
any ideas ?
I have triple check all replacements and everything is there

Are the spiders showing as spiders on online.php or do you just know they are spiders by their host? If they are not showing as spiders in online.php, but as guests, then they won't show as spiders on forumhome either.

ok
they are showing as guest
the 2 that are all ways on there are
msnbot.msn.com
inktomisearch.com

Then why do you expect them not to show as guest on forumhome? It's working propertly. If you want to add more spiders to the group that shows up as spiders, you need to follow the instructions posted above about adding more spiders to the detected group.

I have replaced the install instructions with a fresh text file that fixes the dropdown bug. I am including uninstall directions here for the portion of code changed in online.php for users who installed the version found in spiders3.txt.

Use this text file to uninstall those changes and use the new text file to apply the new changes made to online.php

THIS DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE USING ANY VERSION OTHER THAN SPIDERS3.TXT

Amy

no new file attached lol

new file? where!!

Not sure how I managed that one. It's posted now.

That text file layout is horrible. Can you give something better?

Yikes. It doesn't look like that on Linux. I'll clean it up in notepad and repost.

hi, everything seems to work great apart from: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders i think i have edited the phrase (new to this) i attached a pic of it and the site is in my profile

thanks

You are missing part of a file edit. It depends on which script is showing the error. If you see it on formhome, you haven't completed the index.php edits. If you see it on online.php, you haven't done all of those edits. If you see it on a portal page, read the first post of this thread :)

i just double checked my index.php and all the code is there, it works fine in the online page but in the forum home it shows the error :(

In your forumhome template edit, make sure you passed the correct variable in. If you aren't passing in anything because you didn't make the edit, or if you are passing in the wrong variable, that error will happen as well.

that fixed it :classic: i didnt change it for the theme, only changed it for the deafult thats why :o

how do you fix this and where
both screen shots were taken right after each other

I'd also like to know.....how do you remove the space? So it would display as John, Pete, Barry and not John , Pete , Barry - as an example.

Also, how do you add a space on the WOL for the spiders - for example, instead of, yahoo! slurp(2) - I'd like to have yahoo! slurp (2)

Thanks.

I'm not sure what you are asking.

To remove the space, Find this code in index.php:
Remove the space after the comma there.

To ADD a space, in index.php,
Find:Add the space before the (

spiders dont show on the main forum page but if you click on WOL you will see spiders

go over the instructions again ;) worked perfectly for me

eval('$activeusers .= ",' . fetch_template('forumhome_loggedinuser') . '";'); does'nt work for me.